Three Tweets for the Web?
Tyler Cowen has a wonderful piece in the Wilson Quarterly on what the Web means for culture. An excerpt:
The arrival of virtually every new cultural medium has been greeted with the charge that it truncates attention spans and represents the beginning of cultural collapse—the novel (in the 18th century), the comic book, rock ‘n’ roll, [...]
Darkness at High Noon: the UnAmericanism of an American Icon
A comment to the previous blogpost, That Big Ol’ NEA Scandal… Just Déjà Vu-Du, has taken issue with my characterization of the seminal film High Noon as a deeply unAmerican, even anti-American movie that slanders the American character… at a time when the only form of unAmericanism that was acceptable to the intelligensia in the [...]
Did They Work?
That question has been among the most hotly disputed issues at the center of the continuing controversy over the CIA’s interrogation of suspected terrorists. The report released Monday from the former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson should end the debate.
Throughout his report, Helgerson goes out of his way to avoid expressing an [...]
Paul Rahe: Sobriety and hope
With this post, Professor Paul Rahe continues his series on the the present discontents - in which he has discussed the tyrannical ambitions of the Obama administration (posted here), the danger a consolidation of government poses for the people of the United States (posted here), the psychological disposition that makes democratic peoples vulnerable to servile [...]
